Canada

New trial ordered for N.S. booking officers convicted in jail cell death case

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for two special constables convicted of criminal negligence in the suffocation death of an inmate at a Halifax police lockup. The thre...

Jan 28, 2021

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine allocations to Canada already assuming six doses per vial

OTTAWA - Pfizer and BioNTech are already assuming Canada will agree its COVID-19 vaccine vials contain six doses instead of five and are using that to project how many vials it will send Canada in the...

Jan 28, 2021

Quebec City mosque co-founder decries lack of federal progress on curbing handguns

OTTAWA - The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six people were killed and many others injured four years ago this week laments the lack of federal progress on handgun control in a new letter ...

Jan 28, 2021

It's time for a First Nations person to be governor general: Bellegarde

OTTAWA - Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says it's time for Canada to have a First Nations governor general now that Julie Payette has resigned from the role. The national chief of t...

Jan 28, 2021

Report recommends against basic income in British Columbia, saying it's no cure-all

VANCOUVER - A government-commissioned panel is recommending against the introduction of a basic income for all in British Columbia. The panel's report, co-authored by academics at the University of B....

Jan 28, 2021

Ontario awaits new COVID-19 modelling; Quebec reports exceptional rise in deaths

Ontario is awaiting the first COVID-19 projections since a stay-at-home order came into effect two weeks ago. Canada's most populous province reported 2,093 new infections today and 56 more deaths lin...

Jan 28, 2021

Supreme Court won't hear police oversight case; Black family alleged brutality

TORONTO - Canada's top court refused on Thursday to hear a case involving the limits of police oversight, prompting a renewed call for a misconduct hearing against a police officer a Black family accu...

Jan 28, 2021

Top court to hear case on sexual consent and use of protection

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a case concerning the use of protection during sex and how that relates to consent and possible deception. The complainant in the British Columb...

Jan 28, 2021

Liberals' two-billion-trees promise to cost $2.78 billion more than planned, PBO says

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says a pledge by the Trudeau Liberals to plant two billion trees could cost almost double what the government says. The tree-planting spree, spread over a deca...

Jan 28, 2021

Most minorities disproportionately dropped from civil service hiring process: audit

OTTAWA - A new report says Black Canadians and people from most other minority groups tend to disproportionately lose out on federal civil service jobs they apply for compared with other Canadians. Th...

Jan 28, 2021